POLAR EXPLORATION

Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 21 January 1930, Page 5

POLAR EXPLORATION

SIR DOUGLAS MAWS ON'S QUEST. BLIZZARD SUSPENDS WORK. f'niunl Press As&oclatlmj—By Electric Telegn pu Copyright. ) SYDNEY, Jan. 20. A wireless message from Sir Douglas Mawson states that on January 10 incessant snow had limited the range of vision since the recent blizzard and suspended all but biological and hydrographic work. Dredgings indicated a continental shelf in that locality. It was irregular, suggesting the subsidence of a former land surface.

With the rising temperature ice chunks falling from the rigging damaged the aeroplane wings, which were being repaired. The weather promised aii improvement, and the party decided to stand south-east to investigate the new land discovered eastward of Kempland, which Mawson proposes to name Maeßobel-tson Land in honour of the man to whom the expedition owed so much.

BYRD’S SUPPLY SHIP. ELEANOR BOLLING SAILS. 'Bv Telegraph—Press Association.i DUNEDIN, Jan. 20. Rear-Admiral Byrd’s Antarctic supply ship Eleanor Bolling sailed from Dunedin to-day for the Bay of Whales. She will pick np the City of New York before reaching the harrier, and the two will negotiate the ice together.

On arrival at the base Admiral Byrd and the members of the ice party will lie embarked. The expedition should Teach Dunedin, if not enclosed in ice. about the second week in March. t ________